Thanks goes to FDR and academic sympathizers for enabling Soviet nuclear technology. Now the whole world is at risk of Russian (formerly Soviet) dictators.

America needs a missile defense shield and a strong military.

2:26 pm November 24, 2011

amos33 wrote:

I agree with JonJ, Obama has severely weakened the US Defense to such a point that Russia, China and Iran can intimidate us with impunity. Evil is growing the world, not subsiding. Leadership is missing in Washington and the weaker the US grows; the stronger Russia, China and Iran grow. We are nearing the end. There are no leaders in either party of the US political picture. Hard times are coming fast and our leaders are too busy campaigning.

2:58 pm November 24, 2011

Robert Peters wrote:

Big deal. Typical Russians. Never satisfied whiners with a huge inferiority complex. We've bent over backwards to assure them that missile defense does not target them, but it never does any good. They won't be satisfied until it is a "joint" defense, and then they suck out all the technical details of it from us, then leave us as soon as they've gotten all the technical know-how from us.

Drive on with our plan and don't give in to their antics. Further, this "missile deployment", even if only token and symbolic in an election year, should help remind people who the real Russia is.

3:57 pm November 24, 2011

Adam wrote:

Keep him at bay kurwa!

Hopefully this display of unjustified force by the Russians will wake up Washington to the true nature of Russia.

The threat that the Russians are feeling is not one that concerns their defence. The real threat to them is the narrowing of the their offensive freedom. This logic is unacceptable when it comes to peace.

Hopefully this wipes out the illusions the US is having that Russia strives for world peace and security for all countries. Russia has grown stronger and stronger since since the fall of the USSR and the US is now getting weaker by distractions. As it does, the Russians grow more forceful. They believe they are the worlds rightful influential source. U let them grow more and they will once again start invading.

Russians have tasted Polish blood. Its not something that will come out of their system. The physical occupation might have been stopped by force but the political and information war has never stopped on Poland by the Russians. Poles are staunch US allies because they know how it feels living under the arm of Russia. But thats not even the true reason. Poles are natural allies to the US because the Poles have been in a fierce on and off fighting with the Russians since the 1700's when Russia decided that Polands steps to the creation of democracy in Europe was a threat to them. If Russia goes into war mode Poland is an assured target. If Poland holds, the invasion is stopped. Its that simple. If you pour your resources into Poland and make her invincible to attack your gaining a great economical, and political partner. Poland use to be a world superpower before its introduction of democracy which turned all its powerful neighbours against her. A little support will bring great benefits to both countries. Poland is the best ally for the US, one that it has largely ignored.

The pointless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, all the potential conflicts its dreaming up of are illogical. If you already have strong allies secure that friendship and dont ignore it. If you were to pore the same resources into the linchpin countries such as Poland your security increases exponentially. Russia's threats should not scare you away from this support. It should awaken you to seeing the hiding dangers surrounding you. If anything it should make the US aware that Russia is desperate to have a weak Poland, a weak Europe because its the linchpin in any possibility of allied invasion. The threat that the Russians are feeling is not one that concerns their defence. The real threat to them is the narrowing of the offensive freedom. This logic is unacceptable when it comes to peace. Please pass this on to Obama

4:23 pm November 24, 2011

Kboa wrote:

Meh, it's not like it'll stop Thanksgiving day football.

4:36 pm November 24, 2011

holo wrote:

Do they teach such an evil - not to mention false - nationalist history in Poland? Do you even know that every conflict with Russia was started by your buffoons? Poles have invaded since the Time of Troubles, raping and burning the country and behaving worse than Mongols, therefore you have no right to call yourselves martyrs.

Poland today is nothing. Just collateral damage, which is what its leaders are signing up for. Obama is trying to break all promises and balance on the continent and reaffirm the United States' untrustworthy status. Russia has every right to be involved in European security, since she lost 26 million people to invasions from the west. Russia was also THE ONLY reason that Europe did not destroy itself last time. Americans have tried to write it out of history, but in D-day was in fact more like little girls fighting over a doll.

5:09 pm November 24, 2011

XXX wrote:

Why Russia is even worried about this entire situation. Russia is very strong financially and technologically more advanced than poor and completely broken EU and USA. And who even cares about Poland?

5:36 pm November 24, 2011

Emmanuel wrote:

Well, I'll tell you folks! We are already done! Russia end China are getting stronger every our, while we and Europeans are going down per minute! It's not going to last very long before we start kissing Russian asses, just take look around and try to be more objective. Soon we are going to work for Chines ( if we are lucky!?) , and that is the fact!

5:44 pm November 24, 2011

Natick4 wrote:

What will happen to Russia when oil and natural gas are depleted - they have NO alternative technological base. Putin is slowly destroying this beautiful country.

5:53 pm November 24, 2011

Chris wrote:

Jesus I cannot believe what I am reading.What country Russia invaded that was not already in they're posession in the last 200 years?? None!!! What America England Germany france and other invaded? Hmm let me see Iraq, Avganistan, Vietnam,Serbia, Libya,Falkland Islands,India China, Australia whtf u are talking about m0r0ns???
Thats it America is drowning down in greed for money, money, money only as well as they're allies and now they're trying to make war because "if we cant survive no one can". Please just spare me american "coca-cola democracy!!!

7:23 pm November 24, 2011

hank wrote:

The Russians did not loose 26 million people by outsiders but by there own goverment they did not care about there own people they were like cattle when they invaded outher countries by killig there allies murdering women childreN and raping anything on 2 and 4 legs .Give them the chance today and they would to it over again,it is in their blood.Remember Katyn tried to blame it on Germans for so many years before you admitted it to the world assasinaded more people than the Germans did mostly your own people .Now your trying to blame it on your hero Stalin who do you thing will swallow this ,you were peasants and always will be in the eyes of the world.

7:23 pm November 24, 2011

hank wrote:

The Russians did not loose 26 million people by outsiders but by there own goverment they did not care about there own people they were like cattle when they invaded outher countries by killig there allies murdering women childreN and raping anything on 2 and 4 legs .Give them the chance today and they would to it over again,it is in their blood.Remember Katyn tried to blame it on Germans for so many years before you admitted it to the world assasinaded more people than the Germans did mostly your own people .Now your trying to blame it on your hero Stalin who do you thing will swallow this ,you were peasants and always will be in the eyes of the world.

10:13 pm November 24, 2011

delac wrote:

Chris: "What country Russia invaded that was not already in they’re posession in the last 200 years?? None!!!"

Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Afghanistan.... And by the way, most of the countries you listed as invaded by the west were in fact dictatorial regimes, including Argentina which triggered the war in Falkland Islands. Apparently you see absolutely no difference so it is beyond me how you can call anyone else a "m0r0on". Lastly, just like with all the Jacks and Williams posting Russian lunacy, I doubt your real name is Chris, more like Ivan or Zhenia.

11:55 pm November 24, 2011

Urban Living wrote:

Hmm. Hehehe. What happens will happen. No words will stop radioactivebrains. Theyve ate their crap & dont even know it. All political BS. The home of the free & the brave will give them their moneys worth. Come on over.

2:51 pm November 25, 2011

AdamJ wrote:

Chris: “What country Russia invaded that was not already in they’re posession in the last 200 years??
@ Chris WHAT KIND OF STATEMENT IS THAT WHEN IN THE LAST 200 YEARS THEY HAVE INVADED EVERYONE ALONG THEIR BOARDER. So what, the crimes of invading the same countries over a 200 year span somehow dont matter. Your just going to try and throw it out the window and say what have we done thats so bad lately excluding 200 years of our crimes. WTF is wrong with you!

@ holo "Russia has every right to be involved in European security, since she lost 26 million people to invasions from the west."

Buddy, Russia went to war alongside Hitler! Not against him. The Nazis only attacked you after there was no more European countries left between the two of you!

Russians have been so deeply isolated that they actually believe the propaganda their government says. Katyn was carried out by the Germans eh.
Russia did not loose 26mill to western forces. The western forces were the ones fighting the guys who invaded your s@#$#$ ##@@. They willingly sacrificed the population by sending them out without guns or ammo into the front lines. Your leaders were too egotistic to allow its army to retreat to better ground and ordered them to get shot. your government intimidates the worlds stability. Your government is once again starting to verbally threaten the world with a full out nuclear conflict. And you think anyone in their right mind is going to let u near securing Europe.

Col Ryszard Kuklinski had exposed your countries plans for total annihilation of nato. Now you want access to Natos security preparations.

The fing guy has the nerve the say his country lost 26million, Russia invaded its neighbours and struck a deal with Hitler to minimize collateral damage between the two invading superpowers. A contract between two evils. WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR FOOLING. all of eastern Europe knows your brand of evil even if you dont you ignorant KGB @#@$.

Russia is a schizophrenic fighting invisible enemies while the rest of the world tries to contain this giant.

4:29 pm November 25, 2011

holo wrote:

Someone here is schizophrenic. Poland went alongside its Nazi ally to invade Czechoslovakia. The whole interwar period Poland was simply authoritarian aggressive in nature, seeking to annex neighboring lands while chaos engulfed them. It did not work too well because Poles are natural buffoons.

4:22 pm November 28, 2011

AdamJ wrote:

@holo

am you might want to check your facts again. Poland was a bitter enemy of the Nazi's from the start to the end. When the Polish army fell after Poland was attacked from both sides by the Nazis and Russians the Polish people took up arms and fought any way possible. The invaders might have destroyed, killed, but in the end they were not able to keep the land because of continued underground resistance till Poland once again regained independence in 1990's.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia took place in 1968 when Poland was not independent. Its entire government structure was installed by the Russians. During WW2 Poland was wiped out. Its government went into exile to Britain where it coordinated its efforts to regain its homeland. The Russians always claimed they liberated Poland. But what they really did is re-invade it and took it for themselves. But they knew they could not call it Russian land because there was too much resistance to it. they installed its own people into the government against the will of the people and refused to allow the rightful government in exile to return. Then for the next 40-50 years they persecuted anyone with any kind of nationalistic views. They killed anyone from the polish elites, they employed intense propaganda, internally and externally. the purpose of all this was to destroy the Polish peoples will for an independent and strong Poland. This new Russian strategy failed when Polish Solidarity overwhelmed the Russian resources and it triggered the fall of the USSR.

Now the invasion of Czechoslovakia was planned and directed by the USSR. Yes there were Polish troops fighting in that invasion but they were not fighting for Poland. They were basically hostages forced to fight for USSR. One of the reasons this was done was propaganda. which you have totally bought into being uneducated and uninformed. BTW the death toll from this invasion was 108 people! The so called Polish government "that was run by the Russians" was killing more Poles yearly then that whole invasion. Jesus Christ holo read some history. talk to survivors because your views are totally up side down. Your just as bad as the Jews thinking Poland is their enemy when in fact Poland was their home because it was the most accepting of religious rights in Europe. Then when the Russians were running the country for 40 something years everything they did ends up being wrongfully associated with Poland. You cant blame someone for doing something when they are being held hostage with a gun to their head. I was born in 1984 into the exact system that was described in the book 1984 by George Orwell. I was born on the day the Russians killed Jerzy Popiełuszko a prominent Roman Catholic priest from Poland, associated with the Solidarity union. He was murdered by three agents of the Polish communist internal intelligence agency, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, (English: Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) who were shortly thereafter tried and convicted of the murder soon after released. He has been recognized as a martyr by the Catholic Church, and was beatified on June 6, 2010.

Just search for him on Wikipedia and you will get an image of what life really was like in Poland in 1984. Poland wasn't Poland, It was Russia using the name Poland for its own agenda you buffoon.

Poles have endured alot. total destruction of its country, then for 40 years the destruction of its people have resulted in permanent damage. Even today with a free Poland its only free marginally. The Russians are still playing out their agenda. The Polish government still struggles to regain full independence. Most recently you heard of the Smolensk disaster where the Polish side of the Polish government, army, military, and air force was killed over Russian, in a Russian plane, recently returned from maintenance in Russia. Lots of questions left surrounding that incident. The results will probably never be known because the Russian side of the Polish government thats left is refusing a proper investigation and its leaving it all to the Russians. There was a rising hope that Poland will finally fully escape the grip of Russia and then the people leading that hope all get killed.

2:29 am November 29, 2011

Old Europe wrote:

@AdamJ

Even though I may not share every word of your opinion in most cases you are right.. Asking 'what country the Russians had invaded is beyond ridiculous.
Guys like holo and Chris are either totally ignorant or are just following their master's instructions.
The commission must be generous.

8:53 pm November 29, 2011

AdamJ wrote:

@ Old Europe
Thanks for your support. sorry to hear your not 100% with me. LOL, ya thats not possible, I mean im not writing full essays here. well in terms of these subjects we are looking at multiple books to fully explain all the factors and the rational for this and that. This stuff is condensed and explained with the bare essentials to confront some really basic faults in peoples minds. People these days are lazy. They will read or hear some lie, written by someone with a hidden agenda. With motives to influence and over time condition people into falsehoods, with the intentions that it will impair their future judgment. This is why its so important to reveal the full picture.

People say oh its the victors who write in the end who the good and bad guys were. No thats not true. It might be the victors intentions to cast themselves in a good light, but ultimately when it comes down to it, the answers lie in the actual factors surrounding the events. All the facts. Some people are easily manipulated to draw different conclusions by hiding some crucial facts while making statements that imply false conclusions or impressions. And sometimes there is no black and white. sometimes there is blame on either side. But in WW2 and the cold war It was clear what the intentions of Russia, and Germany were. Expansion, and occupation. Looking at the situation today. Russia is bending over backwards steaming at the idea that its loosing its forceful leverage over sovereign countries around her after years of exclusive dominance. The US is not building defences directly in response to Russia. They are building them to provide another layer of safety from any potential external threats. In addition Russia refuses to deal with the past, expecting to play a part in the future of Europe.

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